Understanding the Purpose and Power of Men

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God’s Purpose for

The Male

God Designed and Equipped the Male to Carry Out

Every Purpose and Function He Has Been Given.

any men are still wondering why they exist. Yet the Creator of man did not leave us guessing about who the male is supposed to be and what he is designed to do. In this chapter, we are going to explore God‘s original intentions for men, so that there‘s no more worry, no more guessing as to their reason for being. We turn again to Proverbs 19:21 for the vital truth, “Many are the plans in a man‟s heart, but it is the Lord‟s purpose that prevails.” Many are our opinions of what man should be, but the Lord‘s purpose is the only one that counts— and this purpose is the key to our fulfillment. What we will be looking at is the male‘s ideal purpose. This is not where we are right now. Yet God‘s ideal is what we should be moving toward; and by His grace, we will. We first need to remember that God creates according to the requirements of His purposes. In the previous chap ter, we learned that God desired to dominate and influence the planet through mankind, and so He created man — the spirit — in His image and then placed the man in two physi cal ―houses,‖ male and femal e. “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27). I would like to point out here that since the spirit-man dwells in both male and female, we may refer to the male as M The Creation of the Male-Man

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